2000 Update Schedule for MEDLINE on
PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM): August through December
Entry Months

elow is the update schedule for MEDLINE on
PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM) for the remainder of the 2000 indexing year.

In-process citations are added daily, Tuesday-Saturday. In-process citations are supplied electronically by publishers or are scanned and converted by optical character recognition, or are keyboarded in preparation for indexing.

Completed MEDLINE citations are added weekly, and are typically available by noon (U.S. Eastern time) each Saturday. Completed HealthSTAR citations are added to PubMed monthly, several days after the final weekly update of each MEDLINE Entry Month. Completed MEDLINE citations contain MeSH Heading, Publication Type and other information added during the indexing process, and have undergone further quality control. Searchers should note that completed MEDLINE citations are rarely new to PubMed, but rather, they replace existing citations in PubMed that are tagged "MEDLINE citation in process."

MEDLINE citations in the Update Schedule are organized by Entry Month, which refers to the monthly issue of the hard copy Index Medicus in which they will be printed. MEDLINE Entry Month is not directly searchable in PubMed. For techniques on how to limit to citations recently added, see the May-June 1999 NLM Technical Bulletin article, Converting SDI searches to PubMed. As this article explains, running a search in PubMed and limiting the Entrez Date to the last 30 days does not equate to the date range of the SDILINE file.

The last paragraph of this article discusses the proposed PubMed "Cubby" service that will offer a SDI-like capability. This new service is still under development although tentative plans call for an additional date field that will change when a PREMEDLINE record is elevated with MeSH Headings to MEDLINE.

NOTE: This schedule is only the remainder of the 2000 indexing year. The schedule for 200001 (EM) through 20007 (EM) can be found in the November-December 1999 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin.

Entry Month

Updated MEDLINE Available On or After

200008

Part 1

June 3

Part 2

June 10

Part 3

June 17

Part 4

June 24*

200009

Part 1

July 1

Part 2

July 8

Part 3

July 15

Part 4

July 22

Part 5

July 29*

200010

Part 1

Aug 5

Part 2

Aug 12

Part 3

Aug 19

Part 4

Aug 26*

200011

Part 1

Sep 2

Part 2

Sep 9

Part 3

Sep 16

Part 4

Sep 23*

200012

Part 1

Sep 30

Part 2

Oct 7

Part 3

Oct 14

Part 4

Oct 21*

*Generally, completed citations from Special List Health and Special List Technology Assesment (unique HealthSTAR journal citations) are available also.